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Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Paul Babeu, a Republican congressional candidate, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the Mitt Romney campaign's Arizona co-chair, in the wake of explosive allegations that Babeu threatened a Mexican man, who claims to be his ex-boyfriend, with deportation.
"Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign so he can focus on the allegations against him," Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul confirmed in an email to The Huffington Post. "We support his decision."
In a press conference on Saturday, Babeu said the allegations are false but confirmed that he is gay, something he had not previously discussed.
What was in the article or the OP that made you think that conservatives were ignoring the issue of the threats? Are conservatives leading anti-Babeu parades based on his sexual choices?
But hey that's conservatives for you always putting a higher importance on who you sleep with rather than the real issues at hand
Originally posted by amatrine
I live in Pinal County and he is doing a good job here. He is getting things done , getting more patrols here which we are in DIRE need of. The Illegal population does not like him, but he does his job.
Originally posted by amatrine
The Illegal population does not like him, but he does his job.
(a) Babeu is gay, and (b) that he had allegedly threatened to have an ex-boyfriend deported if the paramour went public with their affair. The paramour, identified only as "Jose," did indeed go public. Jose is a Mexican national who also says that hard-liner Babeu, during the span of their affair, never asked him about his immigrant status.
But Babeu had a lot more to say yesterday. He came out for gay marriage: "This is where our government needs to get the heck out of the way. You can't legislate love." He said that voters in his prospective congressional district should judge him not on his sexual orientation but on his record of public service: "I've served my country. I've answered thousands of emergency calls as a police officer, life saving medals. I served as an army officer in Iraq, commanded 700 soldiers in Yuma."
And he said that being an out gay in Arizona is actually a great thing, that it embodies American ideals: "We're different in America. And we celebrate our differences. And we see it as a strength, the beauty of our country...Our religion, our freedom of speech, our political views and even our diversity in orientation. And that's the same liberties, the same freedoms that I put my own personal safety and life on the line to defend for our country..."